Underground comic iconography blurred into Motherfucker self-presentation on the Lower East Side.

Evidence

An early Motherfucker poster featured a hirsute bearded figure, foot lifted to stomp, resembling Trashman as well as the iconic figure on Zig-Zag rolling paper. Thus, the Lower East Side merged with the Third World as the Motherfuckers fought turf wars with the local pigs over St. Mark’s Place. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1255

Categorization

• XREF: The St. Mark’s Place turf-war seed of the reader’s gentrification thesis — this is the street where the artist-advance-guard dynamic later plays out.